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replaying

noun, verb

replaying is spelled R-E-P-L-A-Y-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, replaying means “The act by which something is replayed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of replaying is replayings.

How many letters and syllables are in replaying?

Letters9: R-E-P-L-A-Y-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is replaying?

Replaying appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce replaying?

    Replaying has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of replaying

    • replayings plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does replaying mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      The act by which something is replayed.

      It took several replayings before I could write down the entire recorded message.

    verb

    1. 1

      present participle and gerund of replay (a form of replay)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does replaying come from?

    From re- + play + -ing.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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